Leavitt Machinery Preview – Round 1, Game 5 at Moose Jaw

RAIDER REVIEW: The Raiders are facing elimination tonight in Game 5 of their best-of-seven WHL Playoffs series against the Moose Jaw Warriors at Mosaic Place. On Wednesday night, the Raiders lost Game 4 of the series by a 2-0 score to fall behind 3-1 in the series. After a tight first period, Justin Almeida opened the scoring late in the second period. The Raiders appeared to tie the game midway through the third when Cole Fonstad buried a rebound off of a Curtis Miske shot. However, the goal was disallowed due to Max Martin making incidental contact with Warriors goaltender Brody Willms. Brayden Burke added an empty-net goal with 15.6 seconds left to round out the scoring. Ian Scott made 21 saves in a losing effort for the Raiders.

VS. MOOSE JAW: The Raiders finished the season series with a 3-4-0-1 record against Moose Jaw. However, the Raiders won three of the last four games in the regular season. Jordy Stallard led the Raiders with 11 points in eight games.

GAME 5 REPORT: Since the 1996 WHL Playoffs, which is the as far back as the records go on WHL.ca, the Raiders have a 5-6 record in Game 5s. Their last win in a Game 5 is April 15, 2005 with a double overtime victory over the Medicine Hat Tigers.

STREAK SNAPPED: Regan Nagy had his team-leading four-game point streak snapped in Wednesday night’s shutout loss in Game 4. The overager from Ogema had a goal and two assists for the Raiders this post-season and a goal and an assist in his final WHL Playoffs game with Victoria Royals in 2017.

SHOOTING GALLERY: Cole Fonstad led all players with seven shots in Game 4, accounting for more than 20% of the Raiders’ total. The output nearly doubled his total from the first three games to a team-leading 15 shots.

UP NEXT: If necessary, the series will return to Prince Albert for Game 6 at the Art Hauser Centre on Sunday evening. Puck drop would be at 6 p.m.

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